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PART V
83.
Navigation Department: Registers of Certificates of Competency issued
for Coxswains and Drivers of Motor Boats, 28 July 1914 - 13 January
1936
The first volume (19/19204) has two sections: one for Coxswains, the
other for Drivers, and shows: date of issue; number of certificate
issued; name and address of person to whom issued; application
number; receipt number; date and amount of fee paid; and remarks.
REGISTRATION OF VESSELS
By a general order dated 18 July 1796, all boats in the colony were required
to be registered:
"... It is also ordered that all boats at this time in the possession of
individuals be forthwith taken to the boatshed at Government Wharf, where
Mr Paines, the master boat-builder, will have orders to cut a number on
their stern, which number the owner is to keep painted or marked with
white. Of the boats thus numbered, the Provost-Marshal will keep a
register agreeable to a form which will be given to him."
(Historical Records of Australia 1.1.696)
The second volume (19/19205 part) combines the two and shows: date of
issue; name and address of person to whom issued; number of licence
(coswain's and/or driver's); application number; receipt number; date
and amount of fee paid.
Location
Kingswood
19/19204
19/19205 (pt)
84.
Numbers
This duty was taken over by the Naval Officer in 1803 (HRA 1.4.328).
28 Jul 1914 - 31 Dec 1919
21 Jan 1920 - 13 Jan 1936
The Act for Registering of Vessels, 4 Geo.IV C.41 1823, gave the
responsibility for registering vessels in the colonies to the Collector and
Comptroller of Customs together with the Governor. This officer was to keep a
Register of Ships registered and to transmit copies thereof to the
Commissioners of Customs in London. This Act was repealed by 6 Geo.IV C.105 of
1825 and replaced by 6 Geo.IV C.110 which had similar requirements to the 1823
Act. In New South Wales the Naval Officer continued to keep the Register until
May 1827 when the duty was transferred to the Customs Department (AO refs:
4/1710 p.149; 4/3695 p.59).
Sydney Harbour Trust: Butts of Certificates of Competency as
Coxswains and Drivers of Motor Launches under fifteen tons, 1 March
1911 - 30 December 1919
Each butt records the number of the certificate; the date of issue;
name of person to whom issued; position (driver/coxswain); amount of
fee; and signature of holder.
Location
Kingswood
19/19206
19/19207
19/19208
Numbers
Dates
77-176
177-276
277-329
1 Mar 1911 - 12 Aug 1912
12 Aug 1912 - 22 Sep 1913
24 Sep 1913 - 30 Dec 1919
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Lloyd's Register of Shipping, 1760 to present.
This printed work appears regularly recording the names, classes, and
general information relating to ocean-going merchant ships.
The scope of the Register of Ships has changed over the years. Briefly it
covers all vessels classed by Lloyd's Register, the Underwriter's Registry
for Iron Vessels (from 1885), other vessels of 100 tons and upwards
registered in the United Kingdom; and as far as possible, the names,
dimensions etc. of all other merchant vessels of 100 tons and upwards in
the world. It also contains details of dry and wet docks, floating docks,
pontoons, patent shipways, tidal harbours, quays etc. at all ports in the
world.
The work also incorporates a List of Shipowners.
Copies of Lloyd's Register are located at the following institutions in
Sydney, and will be held by similar institutions interstate:
State Library of New South Wales
1764 to present. Incomplete (D5656.506/2)
Mitchell Library
1837-1933. Incomplete. (Q656.5/L)
Archives Office of New South Wales
1889-90, 1919-20, 1927-28, 1937-59, 1966-78
Printed returns of H.M. and Colonial Vessels employed for the Public
Service in New South Wales, 1801-06
The returns show name of vessel, how rigged, tonnage, establishment (Navy
or Colonial), ship's complement of officers and men, state and condition,
how employed, and statement of sums paid to those employed on the colonial
vessels.